IHS Environmental Compliance Solution™
To protect your license to operate, your organization's goal is to be 100% compliant with a complex matrix of local, regional, and national environmental regulations, management system standards and industry best practices. Whether your business goals for managing environmental management target cost reductions, business growth or risk management, every organization has a legal and business obligation to properly manage their environmental risk portfolio.
"Quantification, verification and reporting of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in a consistent, accurate and auditable way are critical. To meet this challenge, Husky has initiated an Environmental Performance Reporting System (EPRS) that will systematically gather, consolidate, calculate, report and identify trends in environmental performance including greenhouse gas emissions. EPRS will…utilize software provided by IHS (www.ihs.com), a recognized leader in environmental data management."
-- Husky Energy, 2009 Carbon Disclosure Project Report
Business Value
Cost Reductions
High performing companies relentlessly search for opportunities to reduce costs with emissions-reducing process improvements, including:
- Emissions – Reduce labor costs to deliver emission and compliance reports; reduce emissions fees, water costs, lost product, treatment costs, waste disposal fees, reduced refrigerant and chemical purchases, reduced monitoring and less frequent inspections.
- Increase Sales - Your customers are requesting environmental performance data as part of their buying criteria. Your environmental emissions footprint can help you differentiate your products
- Reduce fines - Reduce operational costs by assuring accurate compliance with auditable, verifiable reporting
- Energy Usage -Setting GHG reduction targets can lead to energy cost savings.
- Hazardous Materials Management -Minimize, control and track hazardous materials at the constituent level and reduce the cost for acquiring, managing, reporting and disposing of hazardous materials
Business Growth
Environmental performance directly impacts your reputation and business growth:
- Lower Cost of Capital – Having a good environmental reputation with investors can increase your stock price. Socially responsible investors and other large investor's evaluate environmental performance as part of their investment criteria.
- Increase Sales - Your customers are requesting environmental performance data as part of their buying criteria. Your environmental emissions footprint can help you differentiate your products
- Reduce fines - Reduce operational costs by assuring accurate compliance with auditable, verifiable reporting
Risk Management
High performing organizations use risk management to identify and control three kinds of risks:
- Strategic Risks – Environmental issues can materially affect an organizations ability to survive. The careful management of environmental risks is critical to business planning, compliance and reputation. Understanding your strategic environmental risks makes it possible to invest in reducing risks with the greatest business impact.
- Compliance Risks - A complete environmental legal registry and compliance action system reduces the risk of disruptions and fines caused by missed compliance obligations. Chemicals risk management assures the safe and environmentally sound manufacture, distribution, handling, disposal and future remediation liabilities.
- Operational Risks - Mitigate your risk of lost revenue by returning to full operations quickly in the event an environmental release occurs. Assure the corrective and preventative actions are completed to prevent future incidents.
Information Challenges
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| Organizations must assure they are in compliance with a growing number of global regulations that require recordkeeping, monitoring, testing, and reporting. | Monitor all phases of EHS performance at individual facilities, across geographic units or enterprise-wide | ||
| Single-function systems lack interoperability to roll up information for enterprise-wide analysis. | Integrated software platform facilitates total emissions management. Enables users — from the plant floor to the executive suite — to monitor, manage and communicate facility, operating unit or enterprise emissions performance information. | ||
| Facilities must meet complex regulatory reporting requirements regarding multimedia emissions and hazardous chemical communication | This solution delivers a full spectrum of automated tools that support compliance with air, water, waste and chemical inventory reporting requirements. | ||
Solution Packages
IHS offers these suggested solution packages to meet the needs of evolving environmental programs. Our solution team will address your specific needs to develop a suggested set of software, content and services to quickly help deliver on improvement goals or eliminate critical business issues. Because each customer is unique, IHS solution packages are designed to be tailored to individual needs. For additional information about the IHS Environmental Compliance Solutions, contact us at 800.289.6116 or email us.
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Compliance Assurance The Compliance Assurance package is designed to provide the capabilities needed to track the completion of environmental regulatory activities and assure ongoing change control of environmental regulations and standards. |
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Total Emissions Management Our Total Emissions Management Solution™ (TEMS™) package builds on the foundation of the Compliance Assurance package. The TEMS package adds capabilities to support facility-level environmental regulatory program management. |
Compliance Assurance package plus
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Environmental Management System The Environmental Management System (EMS) package builds on the foundation of the Compliance Assurance package. The EMS package adds capabilities to support a management systems approach to environmental management. |
All options from Compliance Assurance package plus
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Refrigerant Management The Refrigerant Management package is designed to improve your refrigerant management program. |
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Materials Management The Materials Management package is a foundational element of EHS and Crisis Management.It provides the ability to create, track, and manage chemicals throughout their lifecycle. Manage chemicals (pure, mixtures, and even mixtures of mixtures) and all their associated properties, storage locations and vendors. Materials information is then ready to be used in other EH&S functional areas. (i.e., industrial hygiene, incident management, Hazard communication – employee right to know, air, waste, and water emissions calculation) This data is then used to support facility level environmental regulatory compliance and corporate level rollup. The Materials Management package can help identify opportunities to substitute less hazardous chemicals to reduce an organization's overall environmental impact. |
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